Assessing probe-specific dye and slide biases in two-color microarray data

Background: A primary reason for using two-color microarrays is that the use of two samples labeled with different dyes on the same slide, that bind to probes on the same spot, is supposed to adjust for many factors that introduce noise and errors into the analysis. Most users assume that any differences between the dyes can be adjusted out by standard methods of normalization, so that measures such as log ratios on the same slide are reliable measures of comparative expression. However, even after the normalization, there are still probe specific dye and slide variation among the data. We define a method to quantify the amount of the dye-by-probe and slide-by-probe interaction. This serves as a diagnostic, both visual and numeric, of the existence of probe-specific dye bias. We show how this improved the performance of two-color array analysis for arrays for genomic analysis of biological samples ranging from rice to human tissue. Results: We develop a procedure for quantifying the e...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Ruixiao Lu, Geun-Cheol Lee, Michael Shultz, Chris Dardick, Kihong Jung, Jirapa Phetsom, Yi Jia, Robert H. Rice, Zelanna Goldberg, Patrick S. Schnable, Pamela C. Ronald, David M. Rocke
• Keywords: BMCBI 2008, Probe-specific Dye, Probe-specific Dye Bias, Two-color Microarrays